Pemberton Hall (Eastern Illinois University)
Pemberton Hall is a women's residence hall at Eastern Illinois University, in Charleston, Illinois. Located at the north end of the university campus, at the corner of 4th street and Lincoln Avenue, Pemberton Hall is registered as a historic landmark, due to its status as the oldest women's college
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Reported. Visitors and staff have reported unexplained activity at Pemberton Hall. Accounts most often describe a figure local retellings identify as Mary Hawkins. Accounts like these have circulated for years; The Haunted Guide records them as reports, not as established fact.
Sources: Wikipedia: Pemberton Hall (Eastern Illinois University), National Register of Historic Places (NPS), NRHP nomination file (NARA), Wikipedia.
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